In this episode of Spirit School, I'm sharing a few stories from my reconnection journey back to my Swampy Cree culture and my grandmother's traditional territories. Watch on Youtube as this episode is visual https://www.youtube.com/@squamishmedium
This one's a little different, less polished, more story time. I talk about following your "point of intrigue" (a piece of advice that's shaped a lot of my life), how a library trip with my kids led me to a book by a Norway House author, and how a prayer for happier stories led me to a rare, out of print book of Swampy Cree name origins I found, of all places, on eBay. I also pull out my tobacco plants for a very visual teaching about space, growth, and what it means to flourish.
Following your "point of intrigue" as a way of navigating lifeA library trip with my kids and a synchronistic book findMy connection to elder historian Flora Beardy and author Louis BirdPraying for joyful Swampy Cree stories, and finding The Wishing Bone Cycles on eBayReading from the book's chapter on personal name originsA teaching from propagating my sacred tobacco for the first timeA call for gifted tobacco seeds (I'm down to my last batch)This is a visual episode, if you're listening in audio, come find me on YouTube to see the tobacco plants I'm talking about.
A reminder that the Squamish Medium TV show airs September 2nd in Cree on APTN Languages and September 14th in English on APTN. We're hosting watch parties every week inside the Spirit School Collective, come join us there.
https://www.daniellesearancke.com/spiritschoolcollective - Join the Membership
https://www.daniellesearancke.com/squamish-medium-tv-show - Follow the TV Show
https://www.mqup.ca/Books/V/Voices-from-Hudson-Bay3 - Flora Beardy Book
https://www.goodminds.com/products/all-the-little-monsters-how-i-learned-to-live-with-anxiety - David Robertson Book